Definitions for couloir

couloir cou·loir

Spelling: [kool-wahr; French koo-lwar
IPA: /kulˈwɑr; French kuˈlwar/

Couloir is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in couloir (cilooru).

Definitions for couloir

noun

  1. a steep gorge or gully on the side of a mountain, especially in the Alps.

Origin of couloir

1850-55; French: literally, colander Late Latin cōlātōrium strainer, equivalent to Latin cōlā(re) to strain, filter + -tōrium -tory2; see Examples for couloir

A few minutes more, and he stood at the foot of the couloir.

Bruce and the Gurkhas were below the rib, and could only see up the couloir.

We resolved, then, to risk the short stretch across the couloir.

Their tracks were visible on the snow at the top of the couloir.

The party had gained a considerable height on the mountain when it became necessary to cross a couloir or gully filled with snow.

Soon after this we quitted our ridge and dropped into a couloir to the left of it.

We reached the rocks to the right of the couloir and climbed them for some distance.

In a quarter of an hour we were on the other side of the couloir.

We climbed down into the couloir: the ice was furrowed by avalanches.

Just below him lay the longest ice-slope, or couloir, he had hitherto encountered.

Word Value for couloir
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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